Armin Berres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 03 Feb 08 13:20, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I don't think this is necessary. su-to-root falls back to su if none >> of the other packages exist, and su is essential. Similarly, under X, >> it falls back to x-terminal-emulator if none of the other packages >> exist, and any X environment should have x-terminal-emulator. > > The problem I see here is, that currently a lot of packages which use > su-to-root depend on something like "gksu | kdebase-bin | > kdebase-runtime | sux". Now that parts of KDE 4 are around the > dependency has to be changed to something like "gksu | kdebase-bin > (<<4:4.0.0) | kdebase-runtime". When KDE 3 is no more the dependency on > kdebase-bin can be completely removed and all the dependencies should be > changed sooner or later. Same happens if a new *su alternative is > around. It would be nice, if we would have a single place to change > this kind of dependency. My point is that I think such a dependency may be wrong and possibly shouldn't be included at all. Is it really necessary to have such a dependency when su-to-root has fallback behavior should none of those packages be available? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
